Blog on GitHub Pages

Texts + GitHub Pages = Blog

Follow simple instructions to publish your blog on GitHub Pages and write posts in Texts.

Texts is “rich editor for plain text”—you can write documents in visual interface and they will be saved in plain text format with Markdown markup. This document shows some of the styles available in Texts.

Images

Math

Formulas can be placed inline like or in a separate paragraph, like the following one. Standard LaTeX syntax is supported.

Code

Inline code gets monospaced font.

def print_hi(name)
  puts "Hi, #{name}"
end
print_hi('Tom')
#=> prints 'Hi, Tom' to STDOUT.

Press “Enter” key inside code block to insert a line break or “Shift+Enter” to end code block.

Footnotes

Notes can be placed anywhere1 in the source file. When document is published to a paper-oriented format (PDF or Word) footnotes are displayed at the bottom of the page. E-book readers usually display notes in popups.

Lists

  • First bulleted item.

  • Second bulleted item.

Lists can be styled via menu, keyboard shortcut, or using autoformatting: type minus and space for bulleted item or “1”, point and space for numbered item. Press “Tab” to indent paragraph and create subitem, “Shift+Tab” to unindent.

  1. First numbered item.

  2. Second numbered item.

Tables

Features Editable in Texts Export to PDF Export to HTML
Basic Styles
Footnotes
Images
Tables

Happy writing!

Got a question? Visit http://www.texts.io/.

  1. Yes, right here.